San Jose considers major change to local elections

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

(Gary Reyes/ Mercury News) Frustrated by the cost of multiple elections to fill council seats and the difficulty of limiting the influence of special interests, San Jose officials Thursday took a hard look at wholesale change in the way voters choose ...

Abnormal levels of mercury found on Semirara

Inquirer.net, Philippines

By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. san jose , Antique Scienties have confirmed that some areas on Semirara Island had been contaminated by coal from mining operations and warned of abnormal levels of mercury that could be harmful to the environment and human ...

Mercury News asks San Jose City Council to order release of 911 ...

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By Sean Webby The Mercury News on Wednesday appealed to a San Jose City Council committee to overturn the police department's decision not to release 911 tapes stemming from the fatal Mother's Day shooting by two officers of a mentally ill, ...

Police Refuse to Release Pham 9-1-1 Tapes San Jose Inside

San Jose Police Shooting Rocks Vietnamese Community, Again New California Media

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Thieves make off with school kids' garden tools

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

Teacher Kim Corneille helps Alexandra Constant, 8, and Owen Hugill, 8, measure plants in the garden at Lynhaven Elementary School in San Jose . Burglars had broken into the school before this year, swiping computers and other valuables. ...

Mercury News takes six top honors at Peninsula Press Club awards

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By Donna Kato The San Jose Mercury News won six first place awards and a second place honor in the annual San Francisco Peninsula Press Club contest presented Saturday evening. It included the top award for General Excellence for the staff of the daily ...

San Jose Falcon Brings Slow News Day to an End With Flight

SFist, CA

Yesterday afternoon, one of the young female falcons that adorn the roof at San Jose City Hall (named Ilahay, which is "angel" in Persian) took her first flight. According to the Mercury News, the falcon "flew over the Martin Luther King Jr. library ...

EMC and NetApp Trade Jabs Over Data Domain

New York Times Blogs, NY

EMC and NetApp continued to squabble Tuesday, as the two companies vie to take over Data Domain, a data backup company, The San Jose Mercury News reported. Data Domain said last week that it had accepted a revised offer of $30 a share in cash and stock ...

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EMC-NetApp Takeover Battle a Culture Clash? Enterprise Storage Forum

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Internal Affairs: San Jose's Campos has a new friend in the White ...

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By the Mercury News Mayor Chuck Reed isn't the only San Jose politico who can press the flesh with the Obama-types in Washington, DC His political rival on the council, Nora Campos, just got back from a "very productive" trip of her own last week, ...

Cassidy: San Jose greeting card business finds quick success

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By Mike Cassidy Card rack at Bloomster's where they carry the Jumping Cracker Beans greeting cards in San Jose , Calif on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. (Josie Lepe/ Mercury News) It's been a whirlwind or as whirlwindy as it can get in the somewhat ...

San Jose Mercury News Slams The Governor's Health Care Cuts

Medical News Today (press release), UK

The San Jose Mercury News blasted the governor's plan to gut health care funding for children and the poor. In an editorial published Sunday, the Merc said: ". . . the cuts the governor has proposed so far inflict far more damage than necessary, ...

Facility Notes

SportsBusiness Daily (subscription), NC

But Reed said that he "wants the city to be prepared if baseball gives the green light by working out concerns and showing support for the project" ( san jose mercury news, 6/11). frankly speaking: In NY, Charles Bagli reports Forest City Ratner ...

Domestic Partners with Huge Property-Tax Reassessments Face June ...

KCBS, CA

san jose , Calif. (KCBS/ Mercury News) -- Gay, lesbians and seniors who registered as domestic partners during the earlier part of this decade, and were hit by huge property-tax reassessments after their partners died or their relationships ended, ...

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MLB Franchise Notes: Astros To Allow Kids In For Free All Summer

SportsBusiness Daily (subscription), NC

But Ryan writes most nights, "as the camera pans behind the dugouts, even those numbers look exaggerated" ( san jose mercury news, 6/12). swing away: The Brewers have launched a new Dollars for Dingers promotion, in which for "every long ball the ...

Eye Openers: What's hot around the Bay this week

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By Mercury News staff Conductor Yair Samet accomplishes big things with his San Jose Youth Symphony, which is about to go on a Latin American tour but first will celebrate with a pair of local concerts. On Saturday at 7 pm in Palo Alto (Spangenberg ...

Environmental program helps companies save energy

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

By Tracy Seipel Cisco Systems intern Sarah Shapiro, in one of the labs she helps monitor at the company headquarters in San Jose Tuesday June 9, 2009. Cisco in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps is the first program of ...

$7 billion wish list for Bay Area stimulus spending

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

Although there is no guarantee all the Bay Area's top-rated projects will be funded, the cooperative effort bodes well for the region, said San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. "It's more than a wish list,'' Reed said, "and it will have use beyond just the ...

Hard water can result in soap deposits

WaveHomeSolutions, New York

Writing in the San Jose Mercury News, George Heaton tells one reader that hard water reacts with soap to form the deposits that can be spotted in many bathrooms. The deposits come from the calcium carbonate that is found in hard water. ...

Opinion: San Jose should seek not just a freeze but wage ...

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

... health insurance and neighborhood development. In this time of scarcity, we need labor's partnership for the challenging climb ahead. Sam Liccardo represents District 3 on the San Jose City Council. He wrote this article for the Mercury News.

Santa Clara 49ers deal: Wait for it...

Field of Schemes, NY

Unnamed sources tell the San Jose Mercury News that the total public subsidy will be "well under $90 million," but the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Santa Clara Mayor Patricia Mahan says it will also include $62 million to move an electrical ...

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Santa Clara, 49ers Reach Agreement On New Stadium In City SportsBusiness Daily (subscription)

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Cassidy: Microlending taking off in US, too

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

... giving a thought to where the money came from for the rent, costumes or the sound system that plays the music that keeps the aspiring ballerinas quite literally on their toes. conversation with Eric Weaver, CEO of San Jose -based Opportunity Fund. ...